Tag Archives: Ethan Strimling

There’s been a lot of understandable outrage over the proposed closing of the India Street Health Clinic in Portland, and Mayor Ethan Strimling wants the public to know that their concerns are being heard. He also wants people to know about the opportunities that will be available for them to make themselves heard and speak in […]

When Tom MacMillan first told me last summer that he was going to run in Portland’s 2015 mayoral race, I wasn’t thrilled. MacMillan, a local Maine Green Independent Party activist, is someone who I’ve considered a friend since he recruited me to join the party back in 2013 when I was running for Portland city […]

Around this time in 2011, the field of candidates for Portland’s first mayoral race in nearly a century was filling out. In fact, as the number of hopefuls eventually climbed to fifteen, the ballot was more than just filled out, it was bloated. Four years later, as the first (and perhaps last) term served by […]

Thanks to windy marine conditions on Saturday I was able to take the Maine Green Independent Party‘s leadership up on their invitation to march with them in the Southern Maine Pride Parade. The experience was not what I expected it to be. Almost immediately I felt the need to document the awesomeness that I was […]

Chris Shorr

Chris is a sixth generation Portlander who loves all things Maine. He has worked with mentally ill and marginalized adults at a Portland non-profit, on a lobster boat in Casco Bay, at several high-end Portland restaurants, and at a local meat packing plant. He also ran for Portland City Council in 2013, wrote a weekly column in the now defunct Portland Daily Sun, and currently writes a weekly column in The Portland Phoenix.